# Amanda Simanek

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'''Amanda Simanek''' is an American [epidemiologist](/source/epidemiologist). Previously, she was a professor at the [University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee](/source/University_of_Wisconsin%E2%80%93Milwaukee)'s Joseph J. Zilber School of Public Health.<ref name="Lee">{{cite web |last1=Lee |first1=Hedwig |title=Amanda M. Simanek |url=https://iaphs.org/member-month-amanda-simanek/ |website=Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science |access-date=28 April 2023}}</ref> She is currently at the [Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science](/source/Rosalind_Franklin_University_of_Medicine_and_Science) as the Director of the Michael Reese Foundation Center for Health Equity Research and Associate Professor of Epidemiology.<ref name="Bio">{{cite web |title=Amanda M. Simanek, PhD, MPH |url=https://www.rosalindfranklin.edu/academics/faculty/amanda-m-simanek/ |website=Rosalind Franklin University |access-date=28 April 2023}}</ref> She is also a founding member of [Those Nerdy Girls](/source/Those_Nerdy_Girls).<ref>{{cite web | url=https://thosenerdygirls.org/nerdygirls/amanda-simanek-ph-d-mph/ | title=Amanda Simanek, PhD MPH |website=Those Nerdy Girls}}</ref>

She is a social epidemiologist and focuses on the study of the "psychosocial determinants of infectious disease, links between infection and chronic disease, and the pathways by which social inequities in health occur across the lifecourse and across generations."<ref name="Meet">{{cite web |title=Meet Those Nerdy Girls – Dr. Amanda Simanek |url=https://thosenerdygirls.org/meet-those-nerdy-girls-dr-amanda-simanek/ |website=Those Nerdy Girls |date=31 January 2021 |access-date=28 April 2023}}</ref>

==Biography==
Simanek grew up in the [Chicago](/source/Chicago) suburbs. She graduated from the [University of Wisconsin–Madison](/source/University_of_Wisconsin%E2%80%93Madison) with degrees in women's studies and political science.  She went to the [University of Michigan School of Public Health](/source/University_of_Michigan_School_of_Public_Health) for graduate school, earning a [Master of Public Health](/source/Master_of_Public_Health) in International Health Epidemiology and a PhD in Epidemiologic Sciences.<ref name="Lee" />

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